Great name for a folk music store: Little Shop of Horas. Plus, I like their bumpersticker, although I have a hard time seeing how it would fit on a bumper…

As usual, the contras and squares listing at the Folk Arts Center contains nothing about MWSD…we just ain’t in the picture when it comes to folk dancing, despite our claims to the contrary.

And do we meet a definition of folk dancing: Folk vs. Ethnic Dance?

It’s really too bad that folkdancing.org is (a) freakin’ ugly, (b) trying so hard to make money, so it’s charging for listings (not many groups are paying…), and (c) using lots of ads. The ads are placed at the bottom of the page, so they’re easily avoidable, unless one gets fascinated, as I did, by the cartoons on each page. I didn’t particularly notice the first one, but then the second one had a woman with a pig’s face and something about most calories come from salad dressing. I found it somewhat offensive. Then there was some dumb thing about a wizard being a god, and then a stupid sexist pickup line, and then one showing a beat-up guy and a line about being married to a woman with a fat ass. My overall impression is really stupid and fairly misogynistic, with absolutely nothing to do with folk dancing. I hope they’re getting paid to display the cartoons; if not, I gotta wonder…

This is an ambitious plan: Colorado Dance Plan. It covers all kinds of dancing. The copyright on the page is 2001, and I couldn’t find any other references on the web…wonder what’s happening with it.